The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-28
Emporia weekly News and the En-

possible circulation 70 the matter re- l
quired by law to be published, and in !
cludes papers representing both poiiti- |
cal parties. A proposition by these
papers to do the county advertising at |
legal rates for one paper, cannot be
beaten by any other combination of
papers in the county. The
law requires that the advertising shall
be done ''in some paper having gen.
eral circulation in the county" The
Republican. NEWS and Democrat are
the only papers that have such general
circulation. There is no paper,
can meet the requirements of the law
in this respect. If the ant-hin down
on Fifth Avenue should bid to do the
county advertising for nothing, the
County Commissioners could not ac-
eept its proposition without violating
their oaths. as it is not paper having
a general circulation in the county.
That plate sheet, we mean the ant
hill, ycleped Globe, has no more claims
to be considered in connection with the
county or city advertising than has the
'Opera House Programme" or the
little college paper, occasionally seen
by our citizens. And yet the somewhat
animated piece of gumbo that shapes
up the ant-hill, imagines that every
body regards it in accordance
with its pretentious name. The
proposition of the Republican,
News and Democrat is the fairest
and best thing for the whole people
that was ever offered for considera-
tion. In fact, to do the advertising in
the five papers mentioned, is almost as
good proposition for the county as
the one under which we did it three
years for nothing. The value to the
people is to be measured by the circu-
lation given, and these five papers give
a circulation that no other papers can
give. This being the case, the ques-
ton is settled, so far as the county ad-
vertising r is concerned. 1t is i'm
possible to do the printing on better
terms than it is now being done, ex-
cept some one of the papers now doing
it, should do it for nothing. Because
the Commissioners are having the ad-
vertising done in five papers at legal
rates for one paper, Soden's organ on
Fifth Avenue, charges the Commits
sioners with fraud and bowls that there
is ring formed here to swindle the
people. Soden's pimp, who makes these
slanderous assertions, was sued only
a few days ago. at Wellington,
in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for
libel. We warn him in time to be lit
tie more cautious in making his reck-
less and unfounded charges or some
body will institute a criminal libel suit
against him, in which event he will
have to put up'' or go to jail. Libel
for damages, merely, does not concern
him in the least. Having no property
\ that the law can reach it would be all
the same whether the judgment was
for ten cents or ten thousand dollars
The reasons that have governed the
Commissioners with regard to the
county printing are substantially the
same that governed majority of the
members of the City Council in letting
the city printing. Mr.. McCown or any
newspaper man, who is disinteresteC
and understands the situation in thi:
city, will undoubtedly say that the
proposition of the Republican anC
News was the best for the city, even il
the mill pond organ had proposed to d.
the printing free. Five members GU
of the eight voted to accep
the Republicans proposition. Three
voted the other way. Let the reade
if disposed to be fair, compare the gen
tlemen who voted for the proposition
made by the Republican and thu
NEWS with the gentlemen who voteC
for the ant-hilI. Compare them TO
ability, integrity, honesty, truthful
ness, reputation, or, foT any of those
qualities which go to make up good
solid citizens. They will certainl,
lose nothing by the comparison. Here
are the names of those that voted fol
the proposition made by the Republi
can and NEWS and the names of those
who voted against it:
FOR. AGAINST.
Mccain, Wells,
Tytherleigh, Spencer,
Hyde, Phillips.
Smith,
McCown.
That is the way the vote stood. W.
ask the reader, seriously, do you thinl
Mccain, Hyde, Tytherleigh, Smith ant
McCown are in a conspiracy to swim
die the city in the little matter OF
printing? No, you say, l do not be
lieve it. Then you must believe that
Soden's organ in referring to these
states a willful and malicious false
hood. Yes, that is what it does. Their
if it purposely misrepresents the
truth, defames these men and states
falsehOOds to advance its own selfish
interests, it should be everywhere ig
nored. That is what it should. 1t viii
make no friends by calling such mer
as Mccain, Tytherleigh, Hyde, Smith
and McCown ''swindlers and boodlers. ,
Personally, it does them no harm
where they are known. 1t can't hurt
them in Emporia. But if it should
/
be calculated to give the city bad rep
utation. 1t should be stopped. If a
person, after a trial of thirty years,
does not show sense enough to properly
run a newspaper he should step down
and out. 1t will be remembered by
citizens when the REPUBLICAN first
started, the assertion was made by this
same ant-hin editor and reiterated in
season and out, that the Republican
was owned and supported by the Santa
Fe Railroad Company. A blacker lie
was never told or published. One
equally as black, is the assertion that
the Republican and the News
are all the same. We have never
had any interest in the NEWS. We dc
not own it or control it in any respect
whatever. Colonel Whitley and
Charles Harris are its very competent